168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez has played down expectations of extending his COTA victory tally to eight with a debut Ducati victory in Sunday’s Americas MotoGP.

Marquez missed last year’s event due to injury, but was unbeaten at COTA from 2013-2018, added a ꩲseventh win in 2021, then rode from last to 6th after a startline glitch in 2022.

Having now left Repsol Honda for Gresini Ducati, the six-time MotoGP chaღmpion took his first Sprint podium on a Desmosedici last time in Portimao.

However, he and Francesco Bagnaia then clashed ov⛄er fifth place in the grand prix, leaving༒ both on the ground and out of the points.

Marquez stressed that even without the incide💯nt there were ‘three or four riders faster than me’ and that he𒉰’d sign for a podium on Sunday.

“We arrive in a good racetrack ꦇfor my riding style. Obviously, in the past, we achieved many good results, but right now – as we saw in Portimao – there are three or four♋ riders faster than me,” Marquez said.

“So let's see if I can be a bit closer. If tod🍌ay, Thursday, you said, ‘you will achieve your first [Ducati] podium’, I will sig🎉n. I mean before a victory, we must arrive at the podium. So step-by-step.”

Nonethele☂ss, Qatar and Portimao were circuits where Marquez has never personally excelled, while he was untouchable at COTA for many years.

On the oth𓆏er hand, Ducati’s only COTA victory to date was by Enea Bastianini in 2022 when the Italian, now Bagnaia’s facto🍒ry Ducati team-mate, was riding for Gresini.

“Of course, they [Ducati and Honda] are completely different concepts of bike,” Marquez said. “T🌜he Honda✤ was super strong in stop-and-go corners. As, for example, Alex Rins showed last year here and as me and Joan Mir showed in India more-or-less.

“Let's see how the Ducati is working her൩e. I know that it will be different, but my ඣtarget is to try to flow on this track. It’s a race track that I like. So we will try to enjoy it and then we will see.

"The main reason [I've been so successful here] is that it's [anticlockwise] and you have more left corners than righ💧t. This is the bigge🐼st difference. And also I like stop-and-go corners. 

♈"Apart from that, I had one of the best memories of my career here, when I achieved my first victory in MotoGP, in the second race. 

“It will be difficult to achieve victory [this weekend] because, as I sꦺay, first of all, we must arrive at a better result in a Sunday race, 🥂because at the moment we are not even able to fight for the podium.

“We're in the top five,ℱ but still 🧔the podium didn't arrive yet.”

The Portimao clash has left Marquez 33 points from early title leader ꦓJorge Martin.

Bagnaia crashed from the lead of la𒊎st year’s COTA race, handing a shock victory to LCR Honda’s Alex Rins. 

It was the first RC213V w﷽in since Marquez's most recent victory, at Misano, in 2021.